Casewise Webinar: 3rd February 2011

Join Casewise and special guest Gene Leganza, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc. who shares his latest research and thoughts on the changing landscape of Enterprise Architecture.  Armed with data and insights, he discusses the emerging trends towards business and IT coming together to deliver real value back to the [...]

This step addresses a significant issue in business – how to link different functional groups within the business. It connects different initiatives within those areas and enables greater reuse. People often talk about Business/IT alignment – we suggest this is flawed. Instead we need to integrate them! There is no such thing as IT projects, [...]

With our objectives agreed, we can start collecting information that already exists. This is very important as all too often architecture projects start with some sort of analysis phase, completely ignoring the fact that much of what we might require already exists in the organization.
In order to make the most use of such data, you [...]

Many architecture initiatives have failed to deliver on the grandiose benefits promised by some. These less  successful projects come from looking at things from a pure technology perspective, or in some cases teams appear to have tried to “boil the ocean”. Step 1 of this process seeks to ensure that your initiative becomes one of [...]

The purpose of the 7 Step approach presented here is to ensure that visible value is driven out of the process at every stage. This will help to ensure the survivability of your Business Architecture initiative. It is not suggested that these are “the” steps, just that they are a logical set of steps that [...]

I must admit that I have never been a fan of English Literature, however, with Christmas near upon us; my kids have been learning about the Charles Dickens novella a Christmas Carol at school. I recall reading the book myself many years ago, and after listening to my kids tell their rendition of story of [...]

A Pragmatic Approach to Leveraging BPM Technology for Business Success
Step 7: Process Monitoring & Management
Assuming that your end objective is the ongoing management of your business, then having a proper dashboard is essential. As with Step 3, the way you share this is important and it is highly likely that mangers today may want access [...]

A Pragmatic Approach to Leveraging BPM Technology for Business Success
Step 5: Process Simulation and Optimization
There are many in the BPM community who speak out against simulation, however it can play a major part in many projects. In part this has been due to misunderstandings over how and when best to apply it. It is also [...]

A Pragmatic Approach to Leveraging BPM Technology for Business Success
Step 3: Process Publication and Animation
Last week we focused our attention on step 2 of the model; Process Capture & Documentation. This week we deal with the way in which information is presented to individuals at all levels with step 3: Process Publication & Animation.
Historically, one [...]

It was announced earlier today that Apple has sold a staggering 4,190,000 iPads in its fourth quarter bringing the total number sold since launch to near upon 7.5 million.
The number is slightly behind some analysts’ predictions, with some suggesting that it could have sold up to 6m in the quarter. However, the device is still [...]